emacspeak finally running

[Jude DaShiell]

What a mess!
I had to do a whole lot of things way outside documentation to get this 
application running.
First, since outloud kept on insisting on compiling I did major surgery on 
the emacspeak/servers directory and erased anything that wasn't 
linux-espeak.  I think emacspeak was getting confused in that directory.
After make config and make emacspeak and copying the directory and all 
subdirectories that had emacspeak-setup.el to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp 
and adding an (add-list "load-path statement above emacspeak-setup.el line 
as suggested in the info page, I had to start emacs which complained it 
couldn't find emacspeak-setup.el after being loaded and then I did a 
load-library <ret> emacspeak-setup.el <ret> and heard emacspeak finally do 
something close to its normal startup including the organ music.
Now I'm going to have to investigate to find out why the 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lisp/lisp/ path wasn't liked by emacs.
I think the Make file in the emacspeak directory inadvertently had its 
exit statements stripped out if exit is even a valid Makefile command 
because the stanza just below emacspeak: was you guessed it outloud:.  My 
reading of Makefile code isn't all that professional but all I found was a 
blank line between the end of the emacspeak stanza and the outloud: stanza 
and unless that's a valid form of exit it's entirely understandable why 
outloud kept building even though viavoice wasn't on the machine at the 
time.  Let's not even talk about searching for existing server software 
before building anything, that will add too much complexity to the 
Makefile most likely.
Now I'm going to go study Makefile syntax and see if I can learn enough to 
figure out some valid fixes for this one.



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